Will this be the year Keira f inally gets her Bafta?
DESPITE a glittering career and plenty of nominations, she still has yet to win a major award.
But Keira Knightley was given another shot at furnishing her mantelpiece yesterday, as the Bafta shortlists were announced.
The 29-year-old is nominated for Best Supporting Actress at next month’s awards for her portrayal of codebreaker Joan Clarke in The Imitation Game.
The ceremony looks to be a promising night for British women, with both Felicity Jones, 31, and Rosamund Pike, 35, up for Best Actress for their respective roles in Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything and crime thriller Gone Girl.
But they f ace s ome sti f f competition from established Hollywood stars in a tough category, which also includes Amy Adams, Reese Witherspoon and Julianne Moore.
Miss Knightley was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe in 2006 for her lead role in the film Pride & Prejudice but failed to win either. In 2008 she bagged another double nomination for Atonement at the Golden Globes and Baftas, but again walked away empty-handed.
As well as a Bafta nomination this year, she also has a shot at a Golden Globe for her role in The Imitation Game.
Miss Jones’s nod at the Baftas is not the only success for The Theory of Everything, in which she plays Professor Hawking’s first wife, Jane.
It has ten nominations overall, including Best Film and Best Actor for Eddie Redmayne as the eminent scientist.
Also in the Best Actor category is British talent Benedict Cumberbatch, who is nominated for his role as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game.
The Scarlett Johansson sci-fi chiller Under the Skin, shot at locations around Scotland, is nominated in the Outstanding British Film category.
The Bafta Awards will be held in London on February 8.